I come from Hatfields (AUTHENTIK HILLBILLIES ON MY MOMMA’S SIDE ) AND IN SUM QURTERZ WE IS ROYALTIE…. It’s OK….Just fun.

Well, sis’s friend was born in a literal log cabin in rural Georgia, before 1930. He didn’t get as far as 3rd grade, because the farming had to be done. My mom would be considered a hick in American terms, as she was born on a farm in Japan, where her dad was lucky enough to have enough acres to not only grow food to feed his village, boats for fishing (that is until WWII when the army stole everything).

But even he nor even my mom doesn’t speak like the above photo!

Come to think of it, the only time I hear “ya’ll” is on TV or from some visiting tar heel from NC. The one good thing I appreciate living where I do is folks take pride in speaking passing English, even if they never graduated from the 7th grade.

That guy didn’t do too bad. Had a factory job for over 30 years; retired; has his home that’s paid for; his favorite truck (which too many want as it’s a 70s Chevy and maintained well); and happy as a clam over his grandson. Mom didn’t do much worse.

People make fun of rednecks so much, but from the experience in knowing and living in rural Georgia, they’re some of the hardest working folks I know. They’re up at 4am; at work before sunrise; come home late; the single guys like their hard liquor; married guys have a clan to upkeep. But I wouldn’t trade those days living out in the sticks with these guys as neighbors, for a penthouse in NYC. They’re there when the country calls; they’re there when a tornado or storm hits with chainsaws and their pick ‘em up trucks (often before the EMS gets there) to keep roads open and get injured to the hospitals; with their CBs they also help out along the road where even tow trucks won’t go (12am and your fishing boat trailer is stuck on the ramp — think ABC towing is going to come out in the middle of nowhere to get you or your vehicle out???); they’re there to donate goods for relief work (be it locally; regionally; or nationally); and they’re there to check up on widows and divorcees to make sure they’re safe. In the rural areas where police are few and far between, they’re the law folks depend on (and damn straight they’re armed to the eyebrows — ever had to fend off packs of rabid wild dogs, before????) — and when cops are short handed, have to depend on to catch criminals. This I know directly, when my dad was a sheriff.

Remember decades ago when 4 young kids of the same family drowned at a local swimming hole. The whole town heard about it (dad’s police radio was nothing more than a CB, as he was also the fire chief; and ambulance driver and needed the help), and they raced to the bridge to help find them before the creek would carry them to the river. When the bodies were brought back on trucks to the town’s store, you couldn’t hear a pin drop, as everyone stood transfixed in awe. Biggest funeral I ever saw.

In a city? It would be a yesterday’s news inbetween the sports news and weather, with the manners to go with it.

Went to school there for awhile, and the biggest difference from the city school I transfered to latter was, they said their prayers before school breakfast and lunch (where I learned the Lord’s Prayer even, and no ACLU BS either); and when you had your kindergarden graduation (yes, they treated education as a special event), every girl and boy knew manners — from how to courtesy and bow like ladies and gentlemen, so needed when you were handed your first of first diplomas.

Today, brainy kids will spit and bite you like those rabid dogs, and about as stupid of practical life, too.

Education doesn’t mean a hill of beans, when it trades a sense of community for a degree. That community is what those hicks prefer, than being some stuck up rocket scientist, who believes in fences and locked doors.

So much of the wrong things are known. Folks see what they want to see, hardly the truth.

P.S. Well, maybe you are but you just don’t realize it.

between the HuffingtonPost blogger outing
Obama as an elitist, the debate last
night, and the FauxBrit vid on this site I am
mightily amused and so happy to have
this site to visit!

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Date: April 17, 2008 5:44 PM EDT
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Keep it going!!

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Flea & Uppity sitting in a tree . . . .

Must watch video shows OBama’s arrogance. Reminds me of Bush infact Hitler.

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/04/16/obama-i-am-pretty-darned-good-politician/

“It was really interesting,” said Huffman, who believes he saw a meteor. “People just started flooding the radio stations and the police. It woke everybody up.”

That wasn’t a meteor.. that was Obama’s campaign blowing up over Indiana.

Takes me back to those Houses Of The Holy days (nights) spent sitting around
in the dark listening to the greatness!

Thanks.